Falcon is a SWF compiler and doesn't translate anything. FalconJX is the cross-compiler. All it does is translate AS to JS. A call to HTTPService in AS still needs to find an HTTPService "class" in JS. One JS HTTPService is currently written to use XMLHTTPRequest.
-Alex On 10/29/13 8:06 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Does falcon succesfully translate httpservice components into ajax calls? >I'm curious about what a flex app that's heavy on SOA comes out of falcon >as. One thing I thought could be bad about the flash plugin is inspecting >and debugging http requests and responses etc. > >David > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Erik de Bruin <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 9:52 AM >Subject: [FALCON] working on Mustella > >Hi, > >We left the discussion on using Falcon on the SDK with the idea to see >what it would take get Mustella tests to pass. Alex wrote: > >>>There is no embedded font support in Falcon at this time, so running >>> Mustella is guaranteed to generate a lot of failures. I suppose that >>>some >>> energetic person could make a branch that doesn't have the embedded >>>font >>> libraries and use MXMLC and generate all new baselines and fix >>> AssertPropertyValues that expect numbers based on embedded font metrics >>> and then prove that Falcon can run and pass all of these tests, but > >Feeling particularly energetic today, I decide to give it a go. I >cloned a fresh SDK and build it, explicitly declining the embedded >font offer from the ant script. Sure enough, when I next tried to run >Mustella on the Label component, it balked with the message "Mustella >uses embedded fonts" I bypassed this test, and Mustella ran... >perfectly, passing all 255 tests. > >I thought the idea was that without embedded fonts, a whole bunch of >tests would fail and I'd create new baseline images that we'd then use >to test Falcon, figuring that the lack of embedded font support causes >a lot of the Mustella failures when using Falcon as a compiler... What >am I doing wrong? If the Label tests don't use embedded font support, >than something else is causing all those failing bitmap compares when >using Falcon... > >Thoughts? > >EdB > > > >-- >Ix Multimedia Software > >Jan Luykenstraat 27 >3521 VB Utrecht > >T. 06-51952295 >I. www.ixsoftware.nl >
